Can't wait for the Biden-Palen debates. I have seen Gov. Palen in action, and she will decimate Biden! As far as experience goes, she is the only one of the 4 on the tickets that has any executive experience. Obama has had exactly 143 days of actual working days in the Illinois senate, having spent the majority of his time campaigning the last couple of years. Mrs. Palen has 2 years experience as the governor of Alaska, and has between an 80 and 90% approval rating in her state! The one word I keep hearing over and over to describe Gov. Palen is that she is a "reformer", something we badly need in Washington right now! She has stood up to corruption in the government since taking office, one of her first executive decisions being to get rid of the governor's corporate jet (sold it on ebay)!!!
As for her conservative stance in support of traditional marriage, it should also be noted that she is the first Alaskan governor to give equal benefits to partners of the state's gay and lesbian employees. She has also "reached across the aisle" to employ both Democrats and Independents in her administration.
I would say anyone who has run a household with 5 children (one of whom, a Downs syndrome baby, she j gave birth to this past April) and has a blue collar, hard working husband whose job requires him to be away from home every other week, while also managing to find time to be an extremely popular governor of her state with all of it's requisite duties, including commander of the national guard, can certainly handle the job of vice president or even president should (God fobid) the need arise!
Like McCain, she doesn't just talk the talk, she walks the walk. Her oldest son will be deployed to Iraq with the army in a couple of weeks. Being governor of Alaska, she is very passionate about her state being in the forefront of America's becoming energy independent, and has a wealth of knowledge about how that can and should be done. One thing about our drilling in ANWR, that I learned from an indepth interview with her, was that the actual "footprint" of drilling operations, because of the "state of the art" drilling methods that would be used, would only involve 2,000 or less acres of land in an area of over 2 million acres.
Obama keeps talking about change. It has been said that Obama uses the word, change, as a noun ,while Palin uses it as a verb!! I can't think of a better change than having a person like this, with such down to earth, solid middle class American values as our new Vice President!!! Sarah Palen is about as far away from the Washington establishment as one can get!
The Dems certainly know how to put on a production, and Obama is a fabulous speaker, although I thought his acceptance speech was mostly platitudes and bumper stickers. He seems to be making promises to every special interest group in the party with no concrete plan as to how he will pay for the multitude of entitlement programs he plans to implement. His statement that he will "follow Bin Ladin to his cave", in response McCain's vow to follow him to the "ends of the earth" is just one example of the lack of seriousness and honesty in his speech! I just didn't see or hear much substance there.
The most troubling aspect about Obama, aside from his dirth of experience in an executive position, is his pattern of associations with far left, radical, America hating pastors/mentors and friends. I also believe we, as Americans, ought to ask ourselves why terrorist organizations such as Hamas and countries that hate us, are greatly in support of his being the new U.S. President and leader of the free world.
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a brilliant reduction. 2000 acres. it's exactly like the rest of the land in ANWR. please drill there. just like if you were to do so in downtown omaha, ne versus blair, ne. same impact, because it's the same space, right? huzzah!
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